If you want to get confident cooking seafood at home, you’ve found the very best resource. I'm Christina, the Weekday Pescatarian, and I'm so glad you're here.
Even for self-assured home chefs, buying and preparing seafood at home can be the final frontier of their cooking journey. It was for me!
Let me show you what I’ve learned through my own evolution from meat-and–potatoes queen to eating seafood every single week.
Let’s Make it Simple…
You don’t have to obsess about fish 24/7 to learn how to cook great seafood. I’ve done the research, taken the classes and read the books. The recipes you’ll find here are tested and perfected so that all of us home cooks can create delicious, fail-proof seafood in our own kitchens.
Cooking with Seafood: Making the most of grocery store finds
If you live in a coastal region or in a big city, you’ll likely have access to fresh, local fish like I do today. But I spent most of my life living in the middle of the middle of the United States, far from the nearest ocean.
So most of my recipes are built to use fish you’ll find in the freezer of your local grocery store. If you live near a Whole Foods or fresh fish market, you have even more options!
And if your budget supports seafood delivery services, you can get wild-caught Alaskan seafood dropped on your doorstep from my friends at Sena Seafood any day of the week!
So no matter where you live, we can help you find and create easy and impressive seafood for your dinner table.
How Weekday Pescatarian Can Help You
How to cook seafood: each recipe includes easy-to-follow step by step instructions and photos. But if you want to learn more about preparing a specific type of seafood, check out the in-depth tutorials on the most popular types of seafood in the US.
Perfect-Every-Time Salmon Tutorial
How to Cook Restaurant-Quality Cod Tutorial
Coming soon!
Shrimp and Shellfish Tutorial
Tools for success: working in a restaurant taught me many things…like butter and salt are the secret ingredients to everything…but also, a lot of restaurant techniques don’t always work for home chefs. So I’ve tested, tweaked and simplified each process to make cooking seafood at home an easy choice. You don’t need to buy a $500 pan to create delicious fish. The pan in your cabinet will probably do just fine. For recommendations on stocking your pantry for easy seafood cooking, check out my Pantry Checklist.
Tips and tricks for eating more seafood: I eat a seafood-forward diet 4-5 days out of the week. It’s a great fit for my life, and if that’s your goal, I can help! But most of us just want to find a few easy and impressive seafood recipes to add to our rotation. No long-term commitment or restrictive rules. If that’s you, you’re in the right place, too.
Weekday Pescatarian is for anyone who wants to:
- Feel confident buying seafood
- Get confident cooking seafood
- Introduce a few fish-forward meals to your weekly planning
- Learn how to make the most of local seafood
- Learn how to substitute different types of seafood in your favorite recipes
- Learn how to make dishes you already love using seafood instead of meat
- Create simple spice blends and sauces for restaurant-quality seafood
Finding the recipes you need:
About me:
I spent the better part of two decades as a marketing and communications consultant. Before that, my endless curiosity was put to good use as a local reporter. And before that, I honed my food obsession as a restaurant trainer.
Over the last 12 years, I’ve traveled to 28 countries (and counting!) and taken culinary courses all over the world.
- French Sauce Class in Paris (happiest day of my life?)
- Bacalhau Class in Lisbon
- Authentic Tagine Class in Marrakesh
- Croissant-making in France
- Portuguese Feijoida Class in Porto
- Baguette Course in Paris
I’ve learned how to make Eastern European specialities standing at my grandmother and mother’s sides as they cooked in our tiny midwest kitchen.
My husband’s childhood in Kuala Lumpur (and our travels to the region) have taught me how to cook fresh and flavorful Chinese specialties, Indian seafood and curries from across the region.
And my expat life in coastal Portugal has opened up a world of new seafood dishes, fish varieties and cooking techniques.
I can’t wait to share them all with you!
Since launching Weekday Pescatarian in 2021, my recipes and seafood expertise have been featured on:
CNNHealth, MSN, Pip and Ebby, Savoring the Good, This Healthy Table, Eat Blog Talk Podcast, Kim and Kalee, Eat, Shop, Waste Not Podcast, Southwest Georgia Magazine, Eat LIke No One, A Cultivated Nest and more.
A few of my favorite recipes so far include:
Why I became a Weekday Pescatarian
In 2021 I watched an old Ted Talk from Graham Hill about his decision to transition to a weekday vegetarian diet.
I share his view that so many lifestyle diets present a binary choice that requires a high level of commitment and restriction. Can I swear off birria tacos forever? Have I already eaten my last fried chicken sandwich?
The second driving factor came when my husband and I moved to Lisbon in 2021. We had long contemplated living in Europe, and the middle of a global pandemic seemed as good a time as any to make the leap.
After 9 months in the city center of Lisbon, we moved 15 miles outside the city to the seaside village of Cascais. For the first time in my life, I was living on the ocean with daily access to fresh fish. I was already an adventurous eater and confident cook, but these life changes presented a new opportunity.
And so, Weekday Pescatarian was born.
My goal was simple: get confident cooking seafood at home, and make more of it!
I’m not fanatical about the calendar. I assume Thanksgiving will continue to fall on the last Thursday in November. And you better believe my plate will include turkey. Practicing a weekday pescatarian lifestyle gives me the flexibility to meet my goals without the baggage of restriction.
Thanks for visiting and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions! You can find me at christina@weekdaypescatarian.com.